Manufacture of turned shoes



W. H. TAYLOR.

MANUFACTURE OF TURNED SHOES.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 25, 1921.

1,408,043, I Patented Feb. 28, 1922 warren stares PATENT orrice.

WILLIAM: H. TAYLOR, 011 FORT THOMAS, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF TO THE VAL DUTTENHOFER SONS COMPANY, OE CINCINNATI, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

I/{AIQ'U'FACTUlR-E 01F TURNED SITQES.

Application filed May 25, 1921.

T 0 all to 7mm it may concern.

Be it known that I, l/VILLIAM H. TAYLOR, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Fort Thomas, in the county of Campbell and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture of Turned Shoes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompan ing drawings, forming part of this specification.

My improvements relate to the process of manufacturing turned shoes, whereby perfeet lines and measurements may be obtained for the finished shoe without the difficulties now experienced and without the exercise of any unusual skill in the operator.

Heretofore in making turned shoes, the sole is first tacked to the last and the turned upper also tacked in place and sewed to the sole leaving the counter portion open and not attached. Then the shoe is removed from the last, the upper turned right side out andthe shoe again drawn on the last. The shank piece is then inserted by lifting up the counter and the counter and shank piece are tacked to the heel portion of the sole and the upper accurately adjusted and formed on the last. The shoe is then removed and is ready for the heel. Inasmuch as under this usual process the shank piece is inserted after the first lasting, allowance has to be made for the thickness of the shank piece when subsequently applied and if proper allowance is not made when the shoe is turned, a fullness of the material at the instep will result, or, as more frequently happens, the shank will take more space than has been left, and the heel, instep and waist-line measurements will not be accurately maintained for the finished shoe.

It is to avoid these difiiculties that my invention is directed and it consists in that certain novel method of operations to be hereinafter particularly pointed out and claimed.

1 have illustrated in the accompanying drawings, the turned shoe in the various steps of my improved process.

In the drawings,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the last, showing the first steps in the process.

Figure 2 is a similar view with the sole applied to the last.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 28, 1922.

Serial No. 472,515.

Figure 3 is a similar view with the turned upper applied to the last.

Figure 4 is a similar view with the sewing of the turned upper completed.

Figure 5 is a perspective view of the shoe complete, except for the heeling.

Figure 6 is a view of the complete shoe. The first step in my new process consists in applying the shank piece 1 to the bottom of the last 2 in the position it is to occupy in the finished shoe where it is temporarily attached by pins or tacks from which the heads'have been cut off. The sole 3 is then tacked in place on the last over the shank piece. The turned upper 1 18 then drawn on the last and held temporarily by tacks 5 and the upper is then sewed to the solo by the line of stitches 6.

The shoe is then removed from the last, leaving the shank piece still on the last and the upper turned right side out. The shoe is then lasted a second time, which brings the shank piece into proper position inside the shoe and the counter and upper are then tacked to the heel of the shank and the sole and the shoe is ready for the final operation of adding the heel 7 which is nailed on in the usual way. When the finished shoe is drawn from the last, the shank piece comes with the shoe, leaving the headless tacks in the last to be afterwards removed.

When the shoe is lasted the second time, the space required for the shank has been allowed for, so that the finished shoe has perfect lines and measurements. The heel, instep and waist-lines 9, l0, and 11 (Figure 5) which determine the fit of the shoe to the form of the last, will thus be absolutely accurate without the necessity of the operative making allowance for the shank and without the liability of the thickness of the shank destroying or distorting the fine lines of the shoe.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The process of making turned shoes,

which consists in first fitting and temporarily securing the shank piece to the bottom of the last and then lasting and sewing the turned upper to the sole with the shank piece in position, then turning the shoe, relasting and finishing and removing the shank piece with the finished shoe.

which consists in first applying the shank piece to the last and securing the same telnporarily then applying the sole, then drawing the turned upper on the last and sewing to the sole, then removing and turning the upper leaving the shank piece on the last, then relasting the turned shoe and securing the shank piece to the counter, and then finishing the shoe and removing the same from the last with the shank piece in place in the shoe.

VILLIAM H. TAYLOR. 

